Study Days at Hogwarts

  Chapter 539 Lockhart's deeds

  The manufacture of the Marauder's Map was far simpler than Albert had imagined. It only took him a little time to successfully manufacture the prototype of the map.

   However, due to lack of proficiency, it was not possible to expand the scope of the Marauder's Map to the entire Hogwarts Castle, and it was temporarily impossible to lock only Ginny Weasley.

  The only thing that pleased Albert was that after the Marauder's map was successfully made, a skill named Monitoring Map appeared on the skill panel.

   The rest is naturally to optimize and improve the map you want.

   "I don't know if it is possible to mark the basilisk on the map." Albert looked at the Marauder's map in his hand and murmured.

  Put the map into his jacket pocket, and he left the Room of Requirement. Since Isobel lost the Time Converter, the time they spent together has shrunk significantly, and even the appointment time needs to be arranged in advance.

  Although Albert can use his own time converter to send himself and Isobel back an hour, there are still many inconveniences after all.

   After breakfast in the hall, Albert went directly to Hagrid's hunting lodge.

  Um, you mean roommate?

  Early in the morning, Fred and George were excitedly pulled by Wood to go to the Quidditch pitch for training.

  Lee Jordan hasn't woken up yet.

   This guy had a blast playing unboxing and envelope opening last night.

  Thinking about it carefully, Fred and George, who are also having fun, are actually quite pitiful. They need to run the court for training in the first week of school.

  Maybe entering September, the weather around Hogwarts is no longer as hot as before, and winter is quietly approaching.

  Albert followed the gravel path to the hunting lodge, reached out and knocked on the wooden door, and the sound of Fangya scratching the door soon sounded from the room.

   "Who!"

  Hagrid was wearing an apron and was holding a rooster in his hand. When he opened the door and saw that the person outside was Albert, he couldn't help joking, "Come in, our world champion."

   "Here you are!" Albert handed a box to Hagrid.

   "What is this?" Hagrid wiped his hands vigorously on the apron, took the box from Albert, and asked in confusion.

   "Fudge."

  After Albert handed the box to Hagrid, he knelt down and rubbed the toothy dog's head, and took out a pack of dried fish from his pocket and fed it to the hound.

   "Actually, you don't need to buy this kind of thing for me." Hagrid sighed, and warned, "Don't waste Galleons in the future."

"No, I didn't buy these things." Albert said casually, "In the newspaper incident last time, many people sent me a bunch of packages. I opened all those packages last night and found a bunch of them. Snacks, I sent some over to you."

  Albert usually doesn't eat things from strangers, and he gives away all the snacks he gets from unpacking.

  Hagrid looked at the fudge in his hand, then looked up at Albert, and suddenly didn't know what to say.

"do you want to eat?"

  Hagrid put the **** down, went outside and fetched a bucket of water to wash his hands, unwrapped the package, and poured the fudge into a bowl.

  Albert didn't know what to say, wouldn't it be good to eat it in a box?

  When he saw Hagrid pick up the fudge with his sausage-thick fingers, he realized that Hagrid probably did this for convenience.

   "You really don't want to eat it?" Hagrid started to make tea for Albert.

   "I just had breakfast." Albert shook his head and said, "By the way, I want to get some news from you."

"what news?"

"About Lockhart, why did Dumbledore choose Lockhart to be the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor?" Albert looked at Yaya who was quietly waiting to be fed, and fed the remaining dried fish, "I went to Lockhart To be honest, the two classes I had were really horrible."

"It's very difficult to find a Defense Against the Dark Arts professor now." After Hagrid threw a few pieces of fudge into his mouth, he waited for the water in the copper kettle to boil, poured Albert a cup of amber tea and continued: " People don't want to do it, they think it's an unlucky job, and you know what I mean."

   "Oh, then do you have any impression of Lockhart?" Albert asked again, "I think most of the professors in the school don't like Lockhart very much."

  "Lockhart?" Hagrid took a sip of tea and recalled: "To be honest, everyone probably didn't think that Lockhart would become a well-known writer."

   "What kind of person is he?"

"A person who is extremely narcissistic and has a lot of vanity." Hagrid seemed to be emphasizing his tone, nodding his head and said, "It's because of this that everyone doesn't like it. When I was studying at Hogwarts, It caused a lot of trouble for everyone."

"trouble?"

"For example, before the Quidditch match, I engraved my name on the Quidditch field. Each letter was very large and almost occupied the entire field." Hagrid recalled: "At that time, I was the one who cleaned up the mess for him overnight. , so I was particularly impressed.”

   "It's very similar to what Lockhart would do." Albert said with a smile, "Any other deeds?"

"Well, Lockhart secretly projected his own portrait into the sky at night, like the Black Magic Mark..." Hagrid paused in the middle of his sentence, as if recalling some unpleasant past.

   "Dark Mark?"

"Well, you actually know the Dark Mark." Hagrid couldn't help but smiled wryly. "At that time, Lockhart surprised everyone. Thinking about the scene where his portrait suddenly appeared in mid-air, it caused a lot of excitement. Big buzz."

   "It seems that he is indeed very narcissistic, and he also likes to recommend himself to others." Albert asked suddenly, "Did Lockhart come to you?"

"no, what happened?"

   "I think he should come to chat with you soon!" Albert said, "Is there anything else about Lockhart?"

"Another time, he sent himself a bunch of Valentine's Day cards." Hagrid didn't understand the meaning of Albert's words just now, "I wasn't there at the time, but later I heard from the professors that a large number of owls flocked into the The auditorium sent Lockhart a bunch of cards, and it was a horrible sight."

   "By the way, how about Lockhart's academic performance, I mean his personal ability." Albert simply told Hagrid the deeds in Lockhart's book.

"I don't know, maybe Lockhart is indeed a bit talented, but he is definitely not a hard-working student, otherwise the professors would not be so annoying." Hagrid did not believe that Lockhart could do what Albert just said Those deeds, "I still remember, when he graduated from school, everyone breathed a sigh of relief."

   Just finished speaking, there was a knock on the door. When Hagrid walked over to open the door, he was stunned when he saw the person outside.

   "It's really what you said!" Hagrid murmured softly. When he turned his head, he found that Albert who had been sitting there had disappeared.

  (end of this chapter)